Annoying toys
May 5th 2008 07:59
I don’t often get thoroughly irritated with a site, but when I clicked on the About.com: personal web pages section, I found myself faced with an annoying popup that just couldn’t be got rid of. Of course, when you clicked on ‘cancel’ on it, it just took you straight to its home site. When you clicked on the X up in the corner it did the same. Even my popup blocker failed to sort it out. Vicious.
Even worse, when I clicked on the link to a site called Pyzam, the ad turned up there immediately, but in a different format. And Pyzam’s site isn’t much better. For starters you can only get rid of the upper frame by purposely clicking on it; leaving it means any ads that are playing are full in your face.
Not that I’ll be going back there in a hurry. Pyzam advertises itself as a site for web page toys. In fact it’s basically a widget site, and the widgets for the most part are almost as annoying as the ads I’ve just mentioned.
Rather amusingly, the About.com page says that by going to Pyzam, you can “Give your site's readers something fun to do when they visit your Web site.” So my page isn’t interesting enough as it is that I should provide idiot games for my readers to play?
Even worse, when I clicked on the link to a site called Pyzam, the ad turned up there immediately, but in a different format. And Pyzam’s site isn’t much better. For starters you can only get rid of the upper frame by purposely clicking on it; leaving it means any ads that are playing are full in your face.
Not that I’ll be going back there in a hurry. Pyzam advertises itself as a site for web page toys. In fact it’s basically a widget site, and the widgets for the most part are almost as annoying as the ads I’ve just mentioned.
Rather amusingly, the About.com page says that by going to Pyzam, you can “Give your site's readers something fun to do when they visit your Web site.” So my page isn’t interesting enough as it is that I should provide idiot games for my readers to play?
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